Cyberattacks on health-care organizations continue to be lucrative for bad actors as long as ransoms are paid. For the first time, UnitedHealth admitted to paying the ransom, but data was still stolen and 22 screenshots of compromised files were released on the dark web. (Credit: Song_about_summer/Adobe Stock) Cyberattacks on health-care organizations continue to be lucrative for bad actors as long as ransoms are paid. For the first time, UnitedHealth admitted to paying the ransom, but data was still stolen and 22 screenshots of compromised files were released on the dark web. (Credit: Song_about_summer/Adobe Stock)

Hackers acquired health and personal information about a potentially "substantial proportion" of consumers during the massive Change Healthcare cyberattack, parent company UnitedHealth Group said on Monday.

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